Where is Yizhang County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province located?

Belongs to: Yizhang County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province

Mangshan National Forest Park

Mangshan National Forest Park

Mangshan National Forest Park

Mangshan National Forest Park

Mangshan National Forest Park

Yizhang was known as Yizhang in ancient times and was established in the 13th year of Emperor Yang’s great cause in Sui Dynasty. With a history of more than 1380 years, it occupies the frontier of southern Hunan. It is located at the end of Chu and Guangdong, at the end of Qize. It is connected with the emblem of five ridges and hundreds of Guangdong. It can control Shaoguan when it advances and cover Hengxiang when it retreats. It consolidates the throat of the north and the south and has great potential. This dangerous place must be defended and has always been a battleground for military strategists. It is the "Southern Gate" of Hunan and is known in history as "the Conduit between Chu and Guangdong". The county has a total area of ??2142.72 square kilometers and a total population of 540,000. It governs 27 towns and 349 administrative villages, 16 of which are bordering counties and cities such as Lechang, Yangshan, Ruyuan, and Lianzhou in Guangdong. The Guangdong border is 220 kilometers long.

Yizhang is rich in mineral resources, including gold, silver, lead, zinc, tin and other minerals, with a wide variety of minerals, including 9 categories and 36 species. The territory is rich in coal resources, with an annual output of more than 3 million tons. , is one of the 100 key coal-producing counties in the country. In addition, the reserves of granite and marble are nearly 4 billion cubic meters, with a wide variety of varieties and colors. Most of them are medium and high-grade stones. Its "Yizhang Red" series is called "China's Fourth Red" and is famous both at home and abroad.

Yizhang is also a rare biological gene bank in central and southern my country. The nearly 300 square kilometers of Mangshan virgin forest within the territory are both a national forest park and a national nature reserve, with thousands of national species. Protect animals and plants. Among them, the Mangshan iron-headed snake is a unique snake species in the world and has been listed as a national endangered species.

Yizhang County has developed transportation and communications. The highways include National Highway 107, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, and Provincial Highway 1803, which run from north to south and east to west. The railways include Beijing-Guangzhou Double Line, Baiyang Branch Line, and Pingmei Branch Line, which crisscross the country. In addition, the Yilian First-Class Highway that is about to be opened is under construction, and the transportation in the county extends in all directions. The pattern is taking shape. Postal and telecommunications communications are convenient and fast, and program-controlled telephones, mobile phones, and broadband information have been opened, saving time and smooth communication.

In recent years, the Yizhang County Party Committee and County Government have made full use of their unique location, transportation, and resource advantages to implement the policy of "changing resource advantages into economic advantages, changing transportation advantages into circulation advantages, and changing location advantages." With the "three-change strategy" as its main content, it aims at the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao markets, grasps the pulse of the market, and strives to build Yizhang into a "material reserve" for the Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao markets.

In January 2021, the 2020 ranking of rural revitalization communication influential counties was released, and Yizhang County ranked 94th.

On January 23, 2021, Yizhang County was selected into the 2020 list of civilized cities in Hunan Province.

In January 2021, the list of Hunan Province’s full-region tourism demonstration areas in 2020 was released, and Yizhang County was on the list.

On November 12, 2020, the list of the top 100 counties and cities with China's county tourism development potential in 2020 was announced, and Yizhang County was on the list.

In June 2020, Yizhang County was included in the second batch of counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (Long March Area (Red Front Army)).

In March 2019, Yizhang County was included in the first batch of counties for the protection and utilization of revolutionary cultural relics (Hunan and Jiangxi areas).

In September 2018, the list of comprehensive demonstration counties for e-commerce in rural areas in 2018 was released, and Yizhang County was included.

On February 22, 2018, Yizhang County was included in the list of counties (cities, districts) with basically balanced development of compulsory education in the country in 2017.